Today marks the 20th anniversary of the CIA-backed attempted coup against democratically elected President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez on 11 April 2002. Chavez was taken prisoner and the businessman Pedro Carmona was put in his place. But within 48 the masses reversed the coup. 🧵
PERU: A COUP BY THE OLIGARCHY
In the last few hours the political crisis has accelerated in Peru. President Castillo decreed the closing of Congress but was swiftly arrested. Congress voted to impeach him, proclaiming his VP the new president.
What does this mean? 1/
“The students don’t want to talk to you, they don’t want to talk to ANY war criminal.”
Fiona Lali from the Revolutionary Communist Party takes former Tory Home Secretary
@SuellaBraverman
(who was brought down by the Palestine movement) to task on
@GBNews
.
#CommunistsAreComing
Nicholas ‘the Bloody’ Romanov was a brutal autocrat, a vicious antisemite who supported the Black Hundreds’ pogroms against Jews, & put down strikes & protests in blood. The execution of the Romanovs was not planned but foisted on the Bolsheviks by a war launched against them…🧵
Understand the truth about what the Bolsheviks did to the Christian Romanoff family and their young children
Barbarism. Brutality. The agents of Satanic orders.
“You went to those encampments because you want to be Tory leader.”
“Nobody is going to listen to SUELLA BRAVERMAN lecturing about racism.”
“Capitalism creates these horrors.”
“You’re a liar.”
Fiona DISMANTLES ex-Home Secretary over ‘antisemitism’ smears.
#CommunistsAreComing
WATCH Fred Weston (International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International) on
@GBNEWS
, explaining that the Stalinist regimes of Eastern Europe had nothing to do with real communism, & how the horrors we see today are the fault of capitalism.🧵
#CommunistsAreComing
“Break NOW.”
Unable to answer any of comrade Fiona Lali’s (
@rubanga_a
) arguments, and incensed at being described (rightly) as a hypocrite, reactionary talk show host
@THEJamesWhale
throws a tantrum, cuts the discussion and kicks his guest off the show!
#CommunistsAreComing
Pro-Palestinian activist Fiona Lali: "The British government is supporting a genocide."
James Whale: "If you don't like living in this country, why don't you live somewhere else?"
@THEJamesWhale
@virtualash
@rubanga_a
Our British comrade, Fiona Lali (
@rubanga_a
) is standing as an independent candidate, with the support of the Revolutionary Communist Party (
@revcommunists
), in the General Election on 4 July!
Here’s why she’s doing it…
Imperialist hypocrisy & the invasion of Ukraine - by Alan Woods.
"So, it has started. Russian forces have unleashed a massive attack on Ukraine."
(1/7)🧵
"1,2,3,4, this is fucking class war - 5,6,7,8 overthrow the racist state - one solution: revolution!"
comrades from
@CanadaMarxists
at the Toronto
#GeorgeFloyd
protest demo
Members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (
@revcommunists
) proudly helped evict right-wing Tory warmonger, Jacob Rees-Mogg (
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
) from Cardiff University campus.
Students & workers say: genocide endorsing reactionaries aren’t welcome! 🧵
The following two articles were not written by a Marxist, but instead by a former NATO advisor & colonel in the Swiss Army. We don't endorse every dot & comma, but this is a shattering blow to western lies & propaganda about the war in Ukraine. 1/6 🧵
Michael Gove, right-wing Tory MP, just accused the Revolutionary Communist Party (
@revcommunists
) of antisemitism on a speech televised by the state broadcaster, BBC.
This slanderous attempt to distract from the Tories’ support for genocide won’t stand!
#CommunistsAreComing
Only 48 hours after the coup began, however, it came crashing down. The Venezuelan masses flooded the streets of Caracas, surrounded the presidential palace and, with the help of rank and file soldiers, returned Chavez to power.
We're a bit baffled at Tory ex-Home Secretary
@SuellaBraverman
RTing herself getting kicked around the houses by a revolutionary communist - but here we are!
As Fiona said in the interview, these capitalist politicians are just woefully out of touch.
#CommunistsAreComing
3 officers - thugs of the bourgeois state - holding down & tasing a handcuffed student protestor, for exercising their First Amendment right to protest Israeli atrocities - supported by US imperialism.
This is what capitalist ‘free speech’ looks like!
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CONFIEP (employers confederation), army, police, the capitalist media, US embassy & mining multinationals, through their agents in Congress, removed President Castillo from the office to which he was democratically elected by the people. It is therefore a reactionary coup. 3/
International Marxist Radio will be releasing a special episode on the situation in Israel-Palestine later today.
For a socialist federation of the whole of Palestine, as part of a socialist federation of the Middle East!
Intifada until victory! 🇵🇸✊
Fiona Lali (
@fiona_lali
), who’s running in the British general election with support of the Revolutionary Communist Party (
@revcommunists
) explains why YOU should attend the founding conference of the Revolutionary Communist International on 10 June! Link to register in 🧵👇 🔗
The coup was headed by the Venezuelan oligarchy and US imperialism. Since his election in 1998, Chavez used Venezuela’s oil wealth to fund reforms to benefit the poor, democratised the constitution, and brought the masses into politics. This was unacceptable to US imperialism.
That will be our US organisation,
@communistsus
.
This pamphlet contains no antisemitism, just a radical and effective programme for building a movement that can halt Genocide Joe’s support for Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.
We won’t be cowed by smears.
#CommunistsAreComing
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@GBNEWS
@SuellaBraverman
Brilliant, and absolutely true. Capitalism is horror without end, and that is nowhere clearer than the Middle East. Well done Fiona! ✊️
REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST VS TORY MP!!
@BenGliniecki
from the Revolutionary Communist Party debates Tory MP
@GullisJonathan
LIVE on
@GBNews
!
WATCH Ben skewer bourgeois hypocrisy about ‘free speech’ while our comrades in the UK, US & Canada are arrested for protesting genocide. 🧵
The Ukrainian conflict: is this the start of World War III? - by Alan Woods
"The invasion of Ukraine has been met by a deafening chorus of condemnation from the imperialists. There is an avalanche of propaganda, designed to place all the blame on Russia." (🧵1/7)
In the wake of the failed coup, the comrades of the International Marxist Tendency took the initiative of forming the Hands off Venezuela campaign with socialists and trade unionists from around the world. [IMAGE: Hugo Chavez and editor of In Defence of Marxism, Alan Woods]
“You’ve got a racist government, and a racist Tory MP, going down to accuse students of racism…why should they have to debate someone who is not there on honest terms?”
Adam Booth of the Revolutionary Communist Party telling home truths on GBNews.
#CommunistsAreComing
Ahmed Abu Artema, a Palestinian activist who co-organised the peaceful 2018-9 Great March of Return, agreed to speak with about situation in Gaza. Last night his home was destroyed in an IDF airstrike, killing 5 members of his family & hospitalising him.🧵
2) Castillo, a grassroots teachers’ union leader with strong roots in rural areas, was elected against all odds in July 2021. That was an expression of the anger of the exploited masses in Peru, of the poor peasants, the workers, the indigenous people. 4/
Glad to see our Minneapolis comrades marching boldly and proudly for our ideas! The city is circling a drain dug by capitalism: only revolution can pull it out.
"Free speech is a cornerstone of democracy!
"Capitalism lets everyone speak their mind, communism enforces conformity!"
So why are students in UCLA, Columbia etc. being beaten & arrested in capitalist America for speaking their minds on Israel & Palestine? 🧵
Communists scaring the Zionist press! Our US comrades (
@communistsus
) featured on
@Jerusalem_Post
, participating in coast-to-coat student protest against Israeli’s war of slaughter in Gaza. Brutal police repression is only pushing the movement forward! Intifada ‘til victory! ✊️
Hi John. This is our US organisation - the Revolutionary Communists of America (
@communistsus
). Their ‘agenda’ is opposing Israel’s war of slaughter, standing with the Palestinians, and fighting for revolution.
Reading this and agree with us? Join us! Info in 🧵
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We are pleased to announce that comrade Amin from
@IMTPakistan
has been released and is safely home.
#ReleaseAmin
Thank you all those who participated in the international campaign. Inqilab Zindabad! Socialist Inqilab!
The
#CommunistsAreComing
!
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…by 21 armies of foreign intervention supporting a White counter-revolution so vicious it drew criticism even from its own imperialist allies. We note Mr Poso sheds no tears for the countless men, women & children who died by the Tsarist regime & anti-Bolshevik forces. 🧵
Full interview of British revolutionary communist Fiona Lali on
@LBC
, explaining why our comrades helped kick reactionary Tory warmonger Jacob Rees-Mogg off Cardiff Univeristy campus (Fiona comes in at 6:20).
#CommunistsAreComing
All the most oppressed layers of society aspired to fundamental change expressed in the demand for a Constituent Assembly. They rallied behind Castillo’s slogan that “there should be no poor people in a rich country”. The capitalist owners of the country could not accept this. 5/
"When you watch the news, it feels like you're being gaslit on a monumental scale... All of these [politicians] are getting away with murder!"
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@rubanga_a
) has to say? Then join the Revolutionary Communist Party!
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A major online tabloid tried to ambush our Danish comrades with repeated accusations that communists are violent.
First, look to Gaza, or Yemen, or Vietnam, or the World Wars & you'll see capitalism is easily history's most violent system.
But are COMMUNISTS violent? Well...🧵
Revolutionært Kommunistisk Parti (
@RevoSoc
) har medvind blandt danske unge. 16.000 følgere på TikTok og 16 lokalafdelinger.
Partiet har et klart mål: De vil gennemføre en kommunistisk revolution i Danmark. Og de afviser ikke at tage vold og væbnede midler i brug for at nå deres…
Joe Biden: “violent protest is not protected.”
The campus protests were peaceful until university authorities called in the cops, who went in with batons, tear gas & tasers.
What about the violent Zionist mob the police let attack students at UCLA? 🧵
3) Castillo, and the party he stood for, Peru Libre, faced two serious limitations:
Firstly, their political programme - social reforms but without breaking with capitalism - was utopian and the attempt to implement it could only have two possible outcomes: 6/
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#IMU22
🚩
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Let us know 👇
#marxism
#socialism
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5) Was there an alternative? Yes. To call the masses onto the streets, disband Congress & convene a National Revolutionary Assembly, combined with striking blows against the political and economic power of the capitalist oligarchy 12/
Given that effectively fighting climate change is impossible without dismantling capitalism, then beginning the tasks of building socialism and communism - we can 'honestly' say this is true 👍✊
"I don't think Suella Braverman is worthy of them getting out of their tents to debate her...."
A student from Cambridge University defeats Suella Braverman in a matter of seconds.
200 communists marched through the streets of TO today to let the city know: the communists are here! We ended at the Al Quds Day rally for Palestine & merged into the crowd there.
Comrades also organize communist rallies in VAN, VIC, EDM, OTT-